I'm very musically inclined. My parents were opera singers. As a young child, I could hear operas and I knew if they… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent! — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree… — Julia Peterkin Copy Share Image
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What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
If his/her siblings and parents are not treated and he/she is strong enough to continue the recovery, a sibling will take up… — Virgil Miller Newton Copy Share Image
Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse… — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a… — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
I feel very grateful. I wasn't raised with money. My parents were schoolteachers; I was raised on a small farm. It never… — Paul Marcarelli Copy Share Image
My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. — Claire Forlani Copy Share Image
But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I… — Kaitlin Olson Copy Share Image
The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress. — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don’t need to be alive for that to happen. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them,… — Mo Brooks Copy Share Image
Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into… — Princess Superstar Copy Share Image
As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career. — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
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